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“There’s vultures circling all the time.”
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A Light At The End Of The Tunnel
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“I remember feeding him; watching him close his eyes with each spoonful.”
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“I remember feeding him; watching him close his eyes with each spoonful.”
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For the Love of Ira
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For the Love of Ira
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“He would sit and tell us what it was like to be gay in 1890.”
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Love and a Life Complete
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Stonewall OutLoud

Join us in our national effort to preserve and celebrate the voices of LGBTQ elders.

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#StonewallOutLoud: Help Record the Stories of a Generation of LGBTQ People

#StonewallOutLoud: Help Record the Stories of a Generation of LGBTQ People
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Love Lost, And Found
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Love Lost, And Found
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The Door She Opened
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The Door She Opened
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A Life Worth Living
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A Life Worth Living

The StoryCorps Podcast

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Pearls of Wisdom
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By The Power Vested In Me
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LGBTQ Voices

Listen to the lived experiences and learn about the resiliency of everyday LGBTQ people.

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"And that’s the legacy. We never ran away."
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"And that’s the legacy. We never ran away."

On June 24, 1973, a fire tore through the Upstairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans' French Quarter. Until the Pulse Shooting, this was believed to be the largest single mass killing of gay people in U.S. history. Rev. Troy Perry remembers the aftermath.
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The Saint of Dry Creek

The Saint of Dry Creek

Patrick Haggerty, a teenager in rural Dry Creek, Washington, in the late 1950s, remembers the day he first spoke with his father about being gay.
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"I was worried that you liked me as a girl."
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"I was worried that you liked me as a girl."

Gabe, 8, and his mother, Chris, talk about what it’s been like for him to be transgender, and the future that awaits.
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Love and a Life Complete
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Love and a Life Complete

This episode of the StoryCorps podcast is all about love: what it’s like to lose it, and how you’re never too old to find it.
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